Zyr

Earlier this year I had a programming assignment. It had to fufill certain requirements. My Program had just what was nessacery, no comments in the code, the readme.txt file was 2 lines long, and I finished it less than 5 minutes before it was due.

I got 98%

My friend's program had more lines of comments than lines of code. His readme was 2 pages, with ascii drawings, and was all done a t least a week early.

He got 99%


This was of course due to how the assignments were assesed. They were run through a marking script, meaning my bare minimum code did as well as his well writen.

Basically for the most part, I'm doing what is required and no more. On the other hand, for things that interest me, I'll often go well above what would be required to pass a course. This may not work well in the furture, but for now, I am, at least, happy. I'm doing what I like.

What I'm trying to say, and rather inelloquently I might add, is that while trying for excellence is fine, if it's not something you care about, you're probably better of doing just what you have to, and applying yourself elsewhere.

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Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
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